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Excerpt: ...dants filed this motion. Defendants are requesting to strike or stay the complaint in this matter as a result of Calaveras Superior Court case number 19CV43882, Moore et. al v Reed et. al., which includes these defendants as defendants in a third‐party personal injury liability action. In case 19CV43882, plaintiff Moore was riding his scooter, crashed, and was injured. Defendants were contracted to sweep the street. Defendants submitted a “sw...

Excerpt: ... 2, 2020, Mr. Vitton filed a motion to set aside the default. On January 8, 2021, the Court denied Mr. Vitton's request to set aside the default. On January 20, 2021, Mr. Vitton, filed a motion for reconsideration. Mr. Vitton has not complied with Local Rule 3.3.7 enacted January 1, 2018, by failing to include the mandatory language in the notice of motion regarding the Court's tentative ruling system. Pursuant to said local rule, lack of complia...

Excerpt: ...October 25, 2018, California Department of Transportation answered. On November 13, 2018, parties, except for California Department of Transportation, signed a stipulation to stay litigation and attend arbitration for all causes of action except the fourth cause of action, the stop payment notice. Specifically, the agreement stated that the “parties desire to stay litigation until after Plaintiff, CBA, and CBC have completed the arbitration and...

Excerpt: .... On November 18, 2020, Optum360 filed this motion for summary judgment or, in the alternative, summary adjudication. No trial date has been set. Optum360's request for judicial notice is granted as to Exhibit A pursuant to Evidence Code sections 452 and 453. Pursuant to CCP section 437c(a)(7)(c), “the motion for summary judgment shall be granted if all the papers submitted show that there is no triable issue as to any material fact and that th...

Excerpt: ...onses were due on or before October 15, 2020. Plaintiff sent defendant a meet and confer letter. Having received no responses from defendant, plaintiff filed this motion. Plaintiff has not complied with Local Rule 3.3.7 enacted January 1, 2018, by failing to include the mandatory language in the notice of motion regarding the Court's tentative ruling system. Pursuant to said local rule, lack of compliance provides a specific ground to deny any su...

Excerpt: ...ndition of public property, relying on Government Code §835 which provides that “a public entity is liable for injury caused by a dangerous condition of its property if the plaintiff establishes that the property was in a dangerous condition at the time of the injury, that the injury was proximately caused by the dangerous condition, that the dangerous condition created a reasonably foreseeable risk of the kind of injury which was incurred, an...

Excerpt: ...n behalf of plaintiff. K. W. Emerson 's request for judicial notice is GRANTED as to Exhibits A and B pursuant to Evidence Code sections 452 and 453 and said Exhibits are entered into evidence. K.W. Emerson contends it is entitled to summary judgment because there are no triable issues of material fact as: 1) K.W. Emerson fully executed its duty to protect against the harm suffered by the plaintiff; 2) K.W. Emerson exercised ordinary care in its ...

Excerpt: ...been filed on behalf of plaintiff. Calaveras County's request for judicial notice is GRANTED as to Exhibits A and B pursuant to Evidence Code sections 452 and 453 and said Exhibits are entered into evidence. Calaveras County contends it is entitled to summary judgment because there are no triable issues of material fact as: 1) the County is immune to liability for common law negligence; 2) plaintiff failed to allege statutory grounds for a vicari...

Excerpt: ... which alleges violation of Labor Code §98.6. On August 28, 2020, the Court, after oral argument, stated the “ruling does not preclude defendant from demurring again to the pleading as to Labor Code §98.6 for the reasons specified in this Court's tentative ruling;” thus, the present demurrer does not represent a redundant demurrer as the Court's order of September 14, 2020, explicitly provided that defendant was allowed to demurrer to a sep...

Excerpt: ...ntial Purchase Agreement and Joint Escrow agreement attached to the complaint includes a binding arbitration agreement and are requesting an order to compel binding arbitration. (Petitioners have not complied with Local Rule 3.3.7 enacted January 1, 2018, by failing to include the mandatory language in the notice of motion regarding the Court's tentative ruling system. Pursuant to said local rule, lack of compliance provides a specific ground to ...

Excerpt: ...es that plaintiff's second cause of action for products liability is barred for failure to comply with the Tort Claims Act. On September 28, 2020, plaintiff's opposition was filed. The Court GRANTS District's Request for Judicial Notice as to Exhibits A through C pursuant to Evidence Code sections 452 and 453. Government Code §911.2(a) provides that a “claim relating to a cause of action for death or for injury to person . . . shall be present...

Excerpt: ...tories, Set One. Plaintiff timely responded on June 19, 2020. On June 26, 2020, District served a meet and confer letter. In response to the letter, plaintiff amended his responses. On August 3, 2020, defendant District timely filed this Motion to Compel Further Responses to Special Interrogatories Nos. 12, 13, and 19. Plaintiff alleges District failed to meet and confer and therefore did not comply with CCP §2030.300(b). However, defendant Dist...

Excerpt: ...dgment. No trial date has been set. (Defendant Optum360 has not complied with Local Rule 3.3.7 enacted January 1, 2018, by failing to include the mandatory language in the notice of motion regarding the Court's tentative ruling system. Pursuant to said local rule, lack of compliance provides a specific ground to deny any such procedurally deficient motion. Based solely upon defendant Optum360's failure to comply with Local Rule 3.3.7, the Motion ...

Excerpt: ...fendant's demurrer to the third cause of action, pertaining to violation of Labor Code section 98.6, is SUSTAINED, without leave to amend as this is the third amended complaint. Plaintiff did not receive Court's approval to amend the complaint adding this specific cause of action. Furthermore, plaintiff has not adequately pled this cause of action, even under California's liberal pleading practice, even had such an amendment been allowed. Defenda...

Excerpt: ...n set. Evidence Code section 201 defines relevant evidence as evidence having any tendency in reason to prove or disprove any disputed fact that is of consequence to the determination of the action. Defendants object to specific sentences in declarations submitted by plaintiff based on relevancy. Defendants' objections to plaintiff's offered evidence numbers 4, 5, 7, 8, and 9 are overruled, as the statements are relevant. Objection number 3 is su...

Excerpt: ...ded complaint. On July 27, 2020, defendant District demurred. Defendant District's request for judicial notice is granted as to Exhibit A pursuant to Evidence Code sections 452 and 453. Defendant District's request for judicial notice is granted as to Exhibit B and Exhibit C pursuant to Evidence Code sections 452 and 453 and Gong v City of Rosemead (2014) 226 Cal.App.4th 363, 376. Code of Civil Procedure section 430.41 states that a “party demu...

Excerpt: ...tiff's claim for punitive damages. On July 16, 2020, plaintiff filed an objection. A six‐day jury trial is set for September 2, 2020. Plaintiff alleges that defendant acted with malice and oppression when defendant dug a ditch on plaintiff's road which caused plaintiff to be ejected from the motorcycle he was riding, which caused injuries. Defendant denies acting with malice and oppression when he cleared a swale “ditch” along the road as h...

Excerpt: ... not interfere with plaintiffs' use of the existing well. The defendants could install a fence for livestock that could include the well; but the plaintiffs could install, at their own cost, a cattle gate for a well truck. In IT Corp. v. County of Imperial (1983) 35 Cal.3d 63, 69‐70, the Court ruled: ". . . trial courts should evaluate two interrelated factors when deciding whether or not to issue a preliminary injunction. The first is the like...

Excerpt: ... referred to as “Sergent”) filed a complaint against defendant Suburban Propane (hereinafter referred to as “Suburban”) on July 30, 2015, in case number 15CV41023. Defendant Propane answered on October 26, 2015. The matter was consolidated with 15CV40978 on May 18, 2016. A trial date is currently set for November 4, 2020. The Court has already ruled the non‐expert discovery cutoff has been extended. Therefore, the Court will not relitig...

Excerpt: ... a request for production of documents, set one on plaintiff. The parties stipulated to continue this motion until the issue of disqualification of counsel was resolved. The disqualification appeal and stay were resolved in September 2019. After additional meet and confer efforts, the defendants refiled this motion on June 10, 2020, to compel further compliance with requests for documents numbers 1, 2, 8, 12, and 15. Defendants' request for judic...

Excerpt: ...Set Two. On approximately December 18, 2019, defendants submitted unverified responses and objected to Request No. 13. After additional meet and confer efforts, the plaintiffs filed this motion on May 22, 2020, to compel compliance with Request No. 13. (Plaintiffs have not complied with Local Rule 3.3.7 enacted January 1, 2018, by failing to include the mandatory language in the notice of motion regarding the Court's tentative ruling system. Purs...

Excerpt: ... filed an Application for Immediate Court Hearing and Order to vacate the trial date, and all related dates/cutoffs, and set further status conference in light of the COVID‐19 pandemic. On the same day, this Court granted the request without a hearing. The Court set the matter for May 13, 2020, at 1:30 p.m. in Dept. 4 for trial setting, and granted relief on the pleadings as no jury trials were being conducted in May 2020 due to COVID‐19. On ...

Excerpt: ...ed to as “Gun Club”) answered and filed the amended cross‐complaint on January 30, 2019. The second amended cross‐complaint was filed on October 20, 2019. Gun Club filed this motion on April 27, 2020, requesting to file a third amended cross‐complaint as follows: (1) to delete the quiet title cause of action, (2) to remove reference to Tryon possessing a right of easement in Gun Club property; and (3) to add allegations seeking to termi...

Excerpt: ... representations that Bret Harte Union High School is not a legal entity separate from Bret Harte Union School District and therefore cannot be sued, on its own motion the Court dismisses Bret Harte Union High School as a defendant, without prejudice to be reinstated if discovery reveals contrary facts. Defendants' demurrer to the second cause of action for plaintiff's failure to plead a statutory basis for liability is SUSTAINED, with twenty (20...